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How to Use an Art Gum Eraser in Watercolor Painting

Learn how to use an art gum eraser to paint a sunset with watercolors in this free video art series.

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cjart Aug 02, 2008
Thank you, Sue. I am looking forward to trying this. Very clear and well instructed.
iamjulie1 Aug 02, 2008
thank you Sue, very helpful and easy to understand your instrucitons

Video Transcript

Again, this is Sue Rose with Expert Village. If you remember, we masked this yellow sun in the first stages of showing how to paint this watercolor sunset. Now, I'm going to use this art gum eraser and I'm going to erase this masking making sure that the paper is completely dry. All the yellow is coming up because it was transparent. See there is our sun. It is too light to show, so I'm going to add a little more yellow to it again. There's still a spot on here. Using my smaller brush, add a little more depth to the sun here. You can see the nice round circle. It hasn't blended in at all. You continue with this. You can add as much of your different colors; the yellow, the red, or the blue. You mix the red and the blue to get your purple colors. This needs to add a little more depth to it, but this is the basic way. You continue layering all the way across. When you finish, you end up with something like this. Here are the 2 paintings step my step. It's a beginning project here and the finished project here. Again, this is Sue Rose with Expert Village. Thanks for watching. Here is the beginning project, here is the finished project. Be sure and watch some of the other things that we have in this category.

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How to Use an Art Gum Eraser in Watercolor Painting

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